No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.

Quote by John Mortimer

Topics: Common Sense Quotes

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric...

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric...

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the...

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the...

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound...

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound...

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure...

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure...

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They...

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They...

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of...

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of...

There is always time for failure.

There is always time for failure.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger...

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger...

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to...

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to...

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of...

The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of...

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to...

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to...

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as...

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as...

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure...

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure...

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They...

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They...

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an...

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an...

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license,...

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license,...

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a...

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a...

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold...

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold...

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism...

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism...